184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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Currently, humans lack the cognitive and moral capacities to prevent the widespread suffering associated with collective risks, like pandemics, climate change, or even asteroids. In Moral Enhancement and the Public Good , Parker Crutchfield argues for the controversial and initially counterintuitive claim that everyone should be administered a substance that makes us better people. Furthermore,... Read more
Introduction
1. Disease and Treatment
2. Preventing Harm
3. An Epistemic Argument for Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement
4. A Moral Argument for Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement
5. The Proposal
6. The Epistemology of Moral Bioenhancement
7. Covert Moral Bioenhancement
8. Transparency
9. Libertarian Covert Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement
Conclusion
Biography
Parker Crutchfield is Associate Professor in Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He writes in bioethics and epistemology, teaches medical ethics to medical students and resident physicians, and provides clinical ethics consultations.
